Salvino Marsura Attrezzi Caminetto (fire tools)

These decorative fireplace tools — comprising a dustpan, poker and tongs — possess a delicate linearity, their long, attenuated forms accentuated by subtle hammer marks and tapered ends. Together they read as a sculptural ensemble.

The piece is tinted in places with pigments and is in good condition. 

Salvino Marsura (1938–2020) was an artisan metalworker. After learning his craft in the dynamic workshop of sculptor and ‘iron poet’ Toni Benetton, he spent more than 60 years producing sculpture, furniture, objects and memorials in his hometown of Treviso, Italy.

Marsura’s ironwork art and furniture relishes in the manual aesthetic of the forge, giving voice to the raw metal and the processes of its manipulation including sweltering heat, hammering, bending and welding. His distinctive hand marries elements of brutalism and traditional decorative arts.

H78 W36 D22cm

SM67